Month: October 2018

Well done to all who participated this year. We were amazed at the variety of structures we received and all the interesting materials that were used to make the various structures. There were 5 winners, in no particular order:

Well done everyone!!All the entries were incredible and the STEAM team found it extremely difficult to pick a winner. After over an hour of looking through all the entries we have finally chosen 5 Amazing structures that were impressively similar to the structures they were emulating and that used interesting materials to be created. The winner will be announced at tomorrows Assembly.

Here are a few more entries received early this morning before the closing time.

Big Ben, made with cardboard.
Eiffel Tower, made with cardboard.
Christmas Tree made from lemonade bottle, paper ribbon, material bows and battery lights.
The Louvre, France. Made with cardboard, aluminium foil, plastic paper and sticks.
Toy home made with a milk can, stickers, markers.
Motorised windmill, made with batteries, wires and propellers.
Airplane made from tinfoil.
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany. Made with toast, breadsticks, and toothpicks.
House made from lollipop sticks!

Plane made out of straw and structure made out of tooth picks, marshmallows and Apple.

The Tower Bridge, London, UK. Made with cardboard and beads. Lit up with Diya’s in celebration of Diwali(festival of light). Amazing!!

Galley Head light house, Cork, Ireland. Made using Lego. Great Job!
Recreation of a scene from Jurassic World. Made from Lego. Awesome!
Semi-Automatic tactical shotgun. Made with Lego. Great Job!
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy. Made out of paper. Well done!!

Space Rocket. Made using tissues,paper plates, foil,glue and tape.

Windmill made with lots of lollipop sticks!! Wowser!!
The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. Made with Duplo.

The Big Ben, London, UK. Made with matchsticks.

Stone Age House made with spaghetti!

Angel Falls, Venezuela. Made with a variety of materials.

A Pagoda (a tiered tower with multiple eaves). Made with a variety of materials.

Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE. Made using toilet rolls!!

Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE. Made using blocks and cars.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy. Made with clay and lollipop sticks.
An Egyptian Pyramid made from cardboard and lights.

A Christmas tree! Made with hard paper. paint, glue, different kind of food-buckwheat, coconut flakes, red and white beans, spelt flakes, coffee beans, 2 types of pasta, sesame seeds and chickpeas, also string and a seed found in the park after the storm.Placed on the top of the tree!! What a delicious construction!! Well done!

The Hansel and Gretel house made of sweets!! Delicious!
London Eye, made with wire, lollipop sticks, kitchen roll and skewers.
The Sean Casey Community Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Made with Cardboard and paint.
The Lotus Shopping Complex. Made with polystyrene and cardboard.
A lit up Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. Made with cardboard.
The Giza Pyramid. Made from lollipop sticks.
The Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Made with cardboard and plastic bottles.

The London Eye. Made with lollipop sticks.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa. Made with clay.
The Big Ben. Made with clay.

Mini Farmhouse made from Lego.

Halloween house made from Lego.

The Eiffel Tower, made with lollipop sticks.
The London Eye, using connectors, sticks, origami paper carriages, clay and cardboard.

Loads more entries have arrived in today!! We won’t be accepting anymore after 9am tomorrow morning so get them in tonight!! Here are today’s wonderful entries:

An igloo made with lots of cotton wool and creativity!! Just in time for the winter!

The Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France made with Lego.

A pyramid made with Lego.

The Empire State building, in New York, USA made with Lego.

A Pyramid made with matchsticks and play doh.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy made with paper and cardboard.

The Empire State Building, in New York.

The Big Ben, London, UK, made out of lollipop sticks and match sticks.

The Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin, Ireland. Made with various materials including match sticks and paper.
The Convention Centre, Dublin Ireland. Made with various materials such as tin foil and cardboard.
The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. Made with cardboard and painted the colours of the French flag!

Tank factory made out of cardboard.

A maze made from cardboard and straws.

The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. Made with clay and gold paint.

Towers made from blocks.
The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. Made with cardboard.
Minimalistic – The Spire, Dublin, Ireland. Made with a pencil and some blue tac!
The Big Ben, London, UK.
A pyramid. Made from lots of matchsticks!!
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA. Made out of cardboard, spaghetti, stones, ice pop sticks and string.

The Dublin Convention Centre, Dublin, Ireland. Made from a variety of materials including cardboard, paints and Lego.

The London Eye, London, UK. Made with Kinex and LED lights.
Farmland made with model animals.
Doll house made with Lego.

A rocket made out of wooden shapes.

Jinnahs Mausoleum, in Karachi, Pakistan. Made from cardboard, tinfoil and paints!

Entries are already flying in for this years STEAM week competition. Look down below to get involved!!

Adan(1st class) Gumball machine

Gabriel(Senior infants) Stone henge

Nicole(1st class) Aztec Pyramid

Thank you to Adan, Gabriel and Nicole for these amazing structure pictures! Good luck in the competition!

ACETNS annual STEAM(Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Maths) week is taking place from 15-19 October. Our theme this year is Amazing Structures, the children will be engaging in a variety of fun activities in the areas of STEAM. Here’s your chance to get involved at home.

AMAZING STRUCTURES PHOTO COMPETITION
We want you to use a variety of materials to create an AMAZING STRUCTURE. For example you could build the Eiffel Tower using lollipop sticks or the Taj Mahal using play dough.

What we are looking for:

Creative use of materials

Likeness to the original structure

To enter, work on your projects at home and email a photo of your AMAZING STRUCTURE to steam.acetns@gmail.com. Please include your name, class and teacher when sending your entry.

Entries will be accepted from 9am Monday 15th October until 9am Thursday 18th October. All entries will be uploaded to the school website www.acetns.ie and winners will be announced at assembly on Friday.